OF CONTESTS. VII 



nebulous spots are interspersed with numerous ste'ftar swarms' 

 The so-called black spots (Coal-sacks) of the Southern hemi- 

 sphere, pp. 291350. 



p. SOLAR REGION, pp. 351466. 



I. The Sun considered as the central body, pp. 359 401. 



II. The Planets, pp. 402466. 



A. General consideration of the planetary world, pp. 402 466. 



a. Principal Planets, pp. 403 462. 



b. Secondary Planets, pp. 462 466. 



B. Special enumeration of the planets and their moons ns part* 

 of the solar system, p. 467, 



Sun, pp. 467 470. 

 Mercury, pp. 470 473. 

 Venus, pp. 473 476. 

 Earth, pp. 476, 477. 



Moon of the Earth, pp. 477 502. 

 Mars, p. 502504. 

 The small planets, p. 505 ; Flora, Victoria, Vesta, Iris, 



Metis, Hebe, Parthenope, Astrsea, Egeria, Irene, Euuo- 



mia, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Hygeia; 

 Jupiter, pp. 511 515. 



Satellites of Jupiter, pp. 515 517. 

 Saturn, pp. 517522. 



Satellites of Saturn, pp. 523, 524. 

 Uranus, pp. 524 526. 



Satellites of Uranus, pp. 526, 527. 

 Neptune, pp. 527 530. 



Satellites of Neptune, pp. 531, 532. 



III. The comets, pp. 553560. 



IV. Ring of the zodiacal b'ght, pp. 561565. 



V. Shooting stars, fire-balls, meteoric stones, pp. 566 596. 

 Conclusion, pp. 597 601. 



Corrections and additions to vol. iii. p. xiii. 

 Index. 



Special analysis of the individual sections of the astronomical part 

 of the Cosmos. 



a. ASTROGNOSY. 



I. Cosmical space: Only isolated portions are measurable, p. 34. 

 ^-Resisting medium, celestial atmosphere, cosmical ether, p. 36, notes 



